10 books for fans of The Golden Couple
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The Wife Between Us
by Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen
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Vanessa seems like the typical jealous ex-wife obsessing over her replacement, but this twisted triangle hides darker truths about manipulation and survival. Hendricks and Pekkanen demolish every assumption about who needs protecting.
★ 3.83 Goodreads (449.7K ratings) - 2
Gone Tonight
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A mother who fled an abusive home as a pregnant teenager must confront her carefully buried past when her adult daughter begins uncovering dangerous truths.
★ 3.82 Goodreads (36.9K ratings) - 3
An Anonymous Girl
by Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen
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What starts as easy money for participating in a psychology study becomes a suffocating web of manipulation when the researcher begins controlling every aspect of Jessica's life.
★ 3.79 Goodreads (182.7K ratings) - 4
The Locked Ward
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An adopted daughter accused of murdering her family's biological child gets locked in a psychiatric ward while everyone theorizes about her motives. Pekkanen uses the institutional setting to question truth, memory, and sisterhood.
★ 3.67 Goodreads (22.7K ratings) - 5
The Twisted Women's Book Club
by Karin Slaughter, Oyinkan Braithwaite, Sarah Pekkanen, Linwood Barclay, Naomi Hirahara, K.J. Howe, Robert Dugoni, Alison Gaylin, Heather Gudenkauf, Shari Lapena, Clare Mackintosh, Stacy Willingham, January LaVoy, Andi Arndt, Saskia Maarleveld, Kathleen Early, Lauren Ezzo, Stephanie Epstein, Jenn Lee, Brittany Pressley, Cindy Kay, Nancy Wu, Nicola F. Delgado, Emily Lawrence, Karen Murray, Adepero Oduye, Daniela Acitelli
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A wealthy self-help author's monthly book club seems perfect from the outside, but the literary discussions mask deadly intentions among the carefully selected members.
★ 3.52 Goodreads (7.6K ratings) - 6
A Flicker in the Dark
by Stacy Willingham
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Willingham puts psychologist Chloe Davis in an impossible position when new murders echo the crimes that sent her father to prison two decades earlier.
★ 3.97 Goodreads (618.6K ratings) - 7
What Lies in the Woods
by Kate Alice Marshall
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Three girls played the Goddess Game in the woods until Naomi was brutally attacked—now she's back to uncover what really happened that summer.
★ 3.94 Goodreads (205.8K ratings) - 8
All Good People Here
by Ashley Flowers, Alex Kiester
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Journalist Margot returns home to investigate her childhood neighbor's unsolved murder when another girl vanishes—true crime podcast expertise meets psychological thriller.
★ 3.82 Goodreads (342.8K ratings) - 9
You Are Not Alone
by Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen
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Isolated New Yorker Shay finds the belonging she craves with sophisticated sisters Cassandra and Jane Moore, unaware their friendship comes with deadly strings attached. Hendricks and Pekkanen craft a chilling exploration of female friendship, manipulation, and the desperate need for connection.
★ 3.75 Goodreads (92.9K ratings) - 10
The Warehouse
by Rob Hart
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Imagine Amazon controlling not just your shopping but your entire life—housing, food, relationships—all within their sprawling corporate facilities. Hart's corporate dystopia feels uncomfortably plausible.
★ 3.84 Goodreads (15.1K ratings)